Now Available to PBS Stations Nationwide Beginning September 1, 2026.
The Will Rogers Stage Foundation is proud to announce that The Folk Legacy Trio — recorded at Will Rogers Auditorium on April 14, 2024 — has been accepted by the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), our conduit to PBS. Beginning September 1, 2026, the one-hour program is offered royalty free to PBS member stations and affiliates across the country, with broadcast rights running through August 31, 2031.
You can help bring the concert to your community. Acceptance by NETA makes the program available to stations — it does not schedule it. Each station chooses its own programming, so the concert only airs where a local affiliate selects it. Contact your PBS station and ask them to carry The Folk Legacy Trio — a request from a local viewer carries real weight in a station’s programming decisions.
About The Folk Legacy Trio George Grove · Rick Dougherty · Jerry Siggins
The Folk Legacy Trio brings together the talents of George Grove, Rick Dougherty and Jerry Siggins to sing the great songs of the Folk Era. George Grove and Rick Dougherty are both Lifetime Grammy Award winners as members of The Kingston Trio. Hailed as the living library of the Great Folk Era, they sing the Great American Folksong Book™ — some of the most wonderful and beloved songs ever written.
George Grove went from being a background picker at the Grand Ole Opry almost directly into a 41-year career as banjoist extraordinaire with The Kingston Trio. He is a member of the Banjo Hall of Fame.
Rick Dougherty hit the international stages first as Glenn Yarbrough’s replacement in The Limeliters, where he spent 14 years, later adding his ringing tenor voice to The Kingston Trio for 12 years. He has written dozens of songs, arranged for vocal groups, and even directed opera — only under duress, he says.
Jerry Siggins sang with the famous Dapper Dans barbershop quartet at Disney parks in California, Florida and Japan, and spent a decade with a Celtic band before joining the legendary doo-wop group The Diamonds, where he sang lead for 27 years — the ground-breaking group that recorded “Little Darlin’” and the American Bandstand favorite “The Stroll.”
Between them the three have shared stages with the best known names of the Folk Era: Peter, Paul & Mary, Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, Barry McGuire, The New Christy Minstrels, The Brothers Four, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Harry Belafonte, The Mamas & the Papas, The Association, John Sebastian, Josh White Jr, The Limeliters, Glenn Yarbrough, The Kingston Trio and Pete Seeger.
The Will Rogers Auditorium concert featured songs from The Weavers, The Kingston Trio, The Limeliters, Peter, Paul & Mary, The New Christy Minstrels, The Brothers Four, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Gordon Lightfoot, Simon & Garfunkel, John Denver and many others. See the concert photographs →